hc = hardcover, tp = trade (oversized) paperback, [UK ed] = British publication, [CDN ed] = Canadian publication. Default is US publication.
Please note that this listing is not exhaustive; we have many more (several hundred more) titles coming during this period.
16 never-before-published stories on the dark side of tommorrow: Kevin J. Anderson, Paul Di Filippo, Alan Dean Foster, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Louise Marley, Sean McMullen, John Meaney, Paul Melko, Robert A. Metzger, Chris Roberson, Adam Roberts, Mike Resnick & Harry Turtledove, Robert J. Sawyer, and Robert Charles Wilson.
Anthology of romance/science fiction stories, with contributions from Jo Beverley, Lois McMaster Bujold, Mary Jo Putney, Catherine Asaro, Jennifer Roberson and Deb Stover.
Only the barbarian Cnaiur and the sorcerer Achamian, continue to hazard doubts about Anasurimbor Kellhus. But where Cnaiur topples ever deeper into madness and wanton violence, Achamian is compelled to yield the secrets of the Gnosis to the man who stole his wife. And so, the final reckoning is at hand. Faceless assassins will strike in the dead of night. Kings and emperors will fall. The sorcerous Schools will be unleashed. And Anasurimbor Kellhus will at last confront his father. If Kellhus could subvert an entire holy war within a year, what has Modnghus accomplished in thirty? What is the meaning of his Thousandfold Thought?
One of the four topside Master vampires has stolen one of the Keys that opens the sixth seal as foretold in Revelations and thus can decide the outcome of Armageddon. In order to retrieve the Key, Carlos and Damali are quickly thrust into a web of vampire politics and intrigue. And when Carlos's secret drug, Oblivion, finds its way into the hands of the enemies, even the seventh level of Hell comes calling.
Auraya's heroism saved a village from destruction; now she has been named Priestess of the White. But an enduring friendship with a Dreamweaver - a member of an ancient outcast sect of sorcerer-healers - could destroy Auraya's future. And her destiny has set her in conflict with a powerful and mysterious, black-clad sorcerer with but a single purpose: the total annihilation of the White. And he is not alone.
Winner of both the 2005 Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. Early 19th century Britain. The rich, reclusive Mr. Norrell is the first real magician to appear for many years. But no sooner does he start practice than another appears. Mr. Norrell accepts Jonathan Strange as a pupil, but his wild protege becomes fascinated by the figure of the Raven King, a changeling who became king of both England and Faerie, and was the most legendary magician of all. But the pursuit of this ancient lore proves very dangerous. Recommended.
When Gwen "Gigi" Gelman, a ten year veteran of the Providence, Rhode Island vice squad, is made the scapegoat of a routine bust that goes wrong, she starts her own PI business that specializes in runaways and family problems. Gigi is doing well until she takes on a suspected kidnapping of a 14 year old. Warning: may contain elves.
The powerful daughters of River Woman saved young Grae from a flooded river after a volcano erupted and destroyed their tribal home. Then they made him chief, but that's almost the last thing they agree on before the tribe splinters. Grae leads the main group out of Africa ever northward, into central and eastern Europe, always searching for safety and a better life. Challenged by truly monstrous evil tribes, but guided by spirits, they survive. It takes three generations, and three chieftains named Grae, before the tribe comes to rest.
Canadian author. A third volume of Newford urban fantasy stories.
Graham Smith and Annalise Mercado see and hear things other people can't. Their lives are fragmented across alternate realities and they hold the key to the future of a billion planets.
The archangel Michael gave former monk Thomas the task to find the demons who now dwell in human form and expose their evil natures. He must discover if his childhood friend Harold Bollinbroke is more (or less) than he seems. And the woman he takes to wife, the enigmatic Margaret, may too be one of those who would destroy mankind.
The English are at war, not with a foreign power but amongst themselves; a mighty Civil War that threatens to destroy a nation. A great pestilence is upon the land and the newly restored Charles II sits upon the throne trying to hold chaos at bay.
Marla Wolfblade of Hythria is determined to restore her family's great name, but conspirators surround her: the Sorcerers' Collective, the Patriots -- even members of her own family. She must make sure her son Damin lives to be old enough to restore the Wolfblade name to its former glory. Elezaar the Dwarf, a small man with big secrets, teaches Marla the Rules of Gaining and Wielding Power, but will that be enough to keep her son alive?
The oldest of Meriel's children, Sevei and her twin brother Kayne, have reached adulthood. But their world is turned upside down when all of their widely scattered family are simultaneously attacked.
Weber, Lackey, Drake, Ringo, Norton, Moon, Reichert, Foster, Asprin, Resnick, Stasheff and Weis all contribute brand-new adventures set in their most popular fantasy series.
From the author of LIVE GIRLS. When a young family moves into their new home they discover that they are not alone there. The secrets of the past are reaching in from beyond the grave.
600 years in the future, sentient wooden ships travel beneath canvas sails in a universe corrosive to technology. This is Two-Space, the way to reach the stars, and inhabited by alien races. Here Lt. Thomas Melville's ship is mortally wounded in a cowardly surprise attack. Melville must capture a feral, sentient enemy ship and then fight his way across the galaxy to warn of a vast invading armada.
Young Nathan comes to live with the wizened old Bartlemy Goodman, a culinary wizard who raises the boy as his own. But things are not as they seem. Bartlemy recognizes in Nathan a special gift, one very similar to his own. And soon it becomes clear there are others who recognize the Gift in Nathan - people from other times and other worlds.
Someone onboard the USS Michaelson is selling secrets, and to uncover the traitor, legal officer Lieutenant Paul Sinclair must walk the dangerous line between duty and honour.
The dhampir Magiere and Leesil the half-elf set out on a quest to uncover the secrets of their own mysterious origins and to find those responsible for setting into motion the events that brought them together.
Caesar and Marcus Brutus lead their legions far beyond the gates of Rome. But the pursuit of glory abroad will store up trouble for them at home, as Caesar's political adversaries grow more powerful in his absence - with one man emerging as his most dangerous rival yet.
This series takes us from medieval Europe to the distant future, as the world is caught in a war between the forces of greed and fanaticism, and the dragons and their guides and allies who seek to restore the proper natural balance to the planet.
Orphan Wren Tigarian is a forbidden blend of snow leopard and white tiger and grew to adulthood distrusted by all around him. Now he wants Marguerite, the socialite daughter of a prominent U.S. Senator. In order to get her, he must fight not just the humans who will never accept his animal nature, but the Were-Hunters who want him dead for endangering their world.
Klatha: it flows through the universe, molds the kinks between the cosmos, and generally stays out of sight - unless, that is, you happen to be one of those psi-endowed super beings known as the Witches of Karres. Now a plague of intelligent nannites has infested the galaxy, threatening the throne of the Emperor himself. Disaster looms, and everything depends on two young witches, a nannite-sniffing grik-dog, and the doughty space captain who is in charge of the whole menagerie.
The dark Queen's forces are on the move and the forces of Light are beset on all sides. Kellan, a young Knight-Mage valued for his skills as warrior and wizard, is part of the ELves' war councils. His sister Idalia fights beside Jermayan, an Elf Knight bonded with a dragon to become the first Elven Mage in 1000 years - but he knows nothing of Magic.
A father seeks to learn the truth about his son's death. His search leads him to a mass grave filled with inhuman, headless skeletons - all bound in chains.
Sequel to SHADOWS OF MYTH. After the destruction of the evil of the hive, a more dangerous power is exposed. Archer Blackcloak and Tess Birdsong, along with their companions, must travel to Anahar and there purge the darkness that dwells in their own hearts.
Sequel to MARA AND DANN. Dann is grown now, traveling with his friend, a snow dog. And we meet Mara's daughter and Griot with the green eyes, an abandoned child-soldier who discovers the meaning of love and the ability to sing stories.
When a visiting scientist gets wind of the shapeshifting ability of the Shongli twins, able to transform from human to seal and back, the twins are soon in danger of kidnapping or worse. And so they must be sent away from their beloved world.
Her first book since 1992. The US Merrimack was the finest battleship class spaceship in Earth's fleet, able to stand up against the best the Palatine Empire could throw at them, even able to survive attack by swarms of the seemingly unstoppable Hive. But nothing could have prepared the captain and crew of the Merrimack for what they were about to face: three colonized worlds, the Myriad, in the midst of a globular cluster that the Hive somehow overlooked...
In the long war with the Palatine Empire, the pride of the Terran space fleet are its sister starships, the U.S.S. Merrimack and the U.S.S. Monitor. Now that the Palatine forces have secretly captured the Monitor and its codes, they can remotely seize control of the Merrimack--leaving her almost helpless. But as both sides struggle for supremacy, they are about to be attacked by an alien life-form--the Hive, a biological force with only one imperative: to seek and devour.
This direct sequel to WELLSPRING OF CHAOS summons Kharl the Cooper back from his estate to help Hagen, the Lord-Chancellor, deal with rebellious nobles. After a bloody civil war that forces Kharl to use order magery, he is sent back to his old homeland of Nordla as an envoy.
Erroll is awakened by a crank caller claiming to be his father. It feels like a surreal call from the grave as his father has been dead for several years. Erroll has been touched by the Wave, a presence infecting the planet.
When CURE learns that engineering geek Harry Kilgore is employing his newest invention to extort billions from a Colombian drug cartel, they realise they must stop him before he ends up ruling the world.
In Young Jubilee's world the sky is bisected by an arch of light, and the mysterious "silver" rises from the ground each night to completely transform the landscape - and erase from existence anything it touches. Jubilee is devastated when her brother Jolly is taken by the silver. But when a forbidding stranger with the power to control the silver comes seeking Jolly - and claiming that Jolly knows him - Jubilee flees. For she has learned an impossible secret: Jolly may still be alive!
Amoreena Daniels needs money and so accepts the generous payment for service as a surrogate mother offered by a seemingly perfect women's clinic. Not until her baby begins to move - much too early - does she begin to suspect that things are not as they seem.
The wounded Orb of the Vigors is bleeding magical energy and cutting a swathe of death and destruction across the kingdom. Tristan could heal the orb - but only after his blood has been cleansed. For that he must go to distant Parthalon to the mysterious Well of Forestallments.
Reeth Caldason becomes entangled with a utopian Resistance movement who face a fearsome order of mercenary knights determined to quell their rebellion.
Short stories in the Draco Tavern series: landers arrive from a spacecraft in orbit around Earth's Moon and set up a spaceport at Mount Forel in Siberia. Their presence attracted many and a few people grew conspicuously rich from secrets they learned from talking to the aliens. One of these men, Rick Schumann, established a tavern catering to various species of visiting aliens.
In THE RETURN TO QUAG KEEP the brave adventurers of QUAG KEEP, the first D&D novel, try to unlock the secrets of this magical world and maybe even return home to ours.
Twice in the history of the city of Amenkor, the White Fire had swept over the land. Over a thousand years ago it came from the east, covering the entire city, touching everyone, leaving them unburned--but bringing madness in its wake, a madness that only ended with the death of the ruling Mistress of the city. Five years ago the Fire came again, and Amenkor has been spiraling into ruin ever since. The city's only hope rests in the hands of a young girl, Varis, who has taught herself the art of survival and has been trained in the ways of the assassin. Venturing deep into the heart of Amenkor, Varis will face her harshest challenges and greatest opportunities. And it is here that she will either find her destiny--or meet her doom.
Under the Galactic Confederation, there are very few ways to rise above your caste. One is to become a player in the extreme martial arts game known as the Musashi Flex. In the early 23rd century, three people will enter its violent culture: a battle-scarred veteran, an infiltrator, and a cunning upstart. Their fates will entwine--and be decided--in the bloody arena of the Flex. And if they survive, their story will become legend.
When the grim aviators of the Green Storm suddenly attack their airship, Tom and Hester's vacation comes to a halt. They seek refuge in the remote ice city of Anchorage. But Anchorage has been devastaged by plagues, haunted by thieves, and threatened by the savage Huntsmen of Arkangel.
After a vigilante starts ruthlessly killing metanormals, LAPD mutant-hunter Soledad O'Roark (of THOSE WHO HUNT IN DARKNESS) must team up with rival Eddi Aoki.
Barbara Evette has a perfect life in small town Mississippi. She needed a weekend off and set out on a quest for some Cajun food. Det. Kelly Lockhart of New Orleans Homicide is out on the bayou researching the most recent homicide. Barbara and Kelly are heading to a rendezvous that might be fate. They learn that there is more than jambalaya cooking in the swamps.
No sooner has Gray Becq adjusted himself to the familiar surroundings of The Lesley Simonton School for the Magically Gifted than a series of horrible accidents occur. Suspicion falls on Gray. Could he have really brought a demon back with him from the Dire Realm?
Jake Sullivan has cheated death: he's discarded his doomed biological body and copied his consciousness into an android form. The new Jake soon finds love, something that eluded him when he was encased in flesh: he falls for the android version of Karen, a woman rediscovering all the joys of life now that she's no longer constrained by a worn-out body. But suddenly Karen's son sues her, claiming that by uploading into an immortal body, she has done him out of his inheritance. Even worse, the original version of Jake, consigned to die on the far side of the moon, has taken hostages there, demanding the return of his rights of personhood. In the courtroom and on the lunar surface, the future of uploaded humanity hangs in the balance. Recommended.
John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday: visited his wife's grave and joined the army. On Earth, the bulk of defense resources are controlled by the Colonial Defense Force (CDF) who enlist those of retirement age to serve two years on the front in interstellar space.
Forensic anthropologist Leda Hubbard and Egyptologist Gavriella Farouk - Cleopatra 7.1 and 7.2 respectively - face recriminations from the US government for illegal DNA blendings as well as the good and ill effects of playing host to an Egyptian Queen. Sequel to CHANNELING CLEOPATRA.
Raheiran Special Forces Captain Gillaine Davre finds herself in an unknown space way station, missing 300 years. Her only hope of survival rests with dangerously seductive Admiral Mack Makarian, who suspects her of being a smuggler - or worse. But Gillaine is now Lady Kiasidira, holy icon to countless believers, including Mack. Their flirtation is interrupted by a treacherous enemy from the past.
The guardian of the Underworld defeated the Nulefi and destroyed their bodies. Their Swarms, however, still wander the world of Myr. And now they have re-awoken. The boy Vivreki witnessed that rebirth and now the Swarm calls to him, and whispers to him the secrets of a vanished age. To Vivreki's masters this is abomination.
A collection of his stories: Secret intelligence agencies, esoteric theorems. Lovecraftian horrors, Middle East terrorist connections, a damsel in distress, and a final battle on the surface of a dying planet. Recommended.
After a giant clay golem starts making random attacks on London, young apprentice magician Nathaniel and the djinni Bartimaeus must travel to Prague for research.
Sequel to THE GOLEM'S EYE. The young magician Nathaniel, now a member of the British Government, sees Britain's enemies mount attacks close to London. Kitty has completed her research into magic and the past of the djinni Bartimaeus. And then disaster strikes London, and Bartimaeus, Nathaniel, and Kitty must act together against treacherous magicians, conspiracy, and an otherworldly enemy.
A vessel bearing twelve mysterious passengers arrives at a marina near Peter DelaSangre's secluded island home, heralding the arrival of more sinister events--including the kidnapping of Peter's daughter and a corporation's attack against the family fortune. Now, Peter must uncover the ties that binds these misfortunes together, before it's too late.
In the 21st century Kingdom of Versailles: teenager Annette Klein is known as Khadija, daughter of a Moorish family. Annette's whole family are secret agents of Crosstime Traffic and are returning home to California for the start of a new school year. They are attacked by bandits while crossing the Pyrenees and Annette/Khadija is separated from her parents and wakes up as a captive in a slave market.
The conclusion to the WORLDWAR and COLONIZATION series. Now the humans have sent a ship on the decades-long journey to the alien homeworld, and with their arrival the aliens are contemplating destroying Earth rather than allowing the humans to spread. But the arrival of another human ship - a faster than light craft - reveals that the humans can launch an assault on Home anytime they want, thus shifting the balance of power...
Ian Kennedy pursues a hunt for a missing girl that takes him from the alleys of London to the Highlands of Scotland and discovers that the old fables of the British Isles are still very much alive and that some things - hiding in the dark and shadows - will always remain a mystery. Recommended.
Agnes is a lonely and outcast child growing up in 1960s Texas. What she dreams of most in the world is a doll who is real - who will talk to her, tell her stories, be her friend. Sometimes it's better if you don't get your heart's desire.
Dr. Cherijo Torin crash-lands on an ice planet whose population is on the verge of civil war. With no knowledge of her past--or even her identity--she becomes entangled in the encroaching conflict, unaware that her husband is moving heaven and earth to find her.
Vampire-slayer Major Van Helsing's daughter, Ethel Jane, must overcome her fear of blood to go after the bloodsuckers. Can she do it with kisses alone?
Young Telemakos is commissioned by his Aunt, Britain's ambassador to Aksum (Ethiopia) to go to Afar and discover what traitor has infected Afar's salt mines with a deadly plague to increase the market value of salt. However, while traveling through the desert disguised as a deaf-mute slave, Telemakos is captured and forced to endure indignities.
Jason Thanou of the Temporal Regulatory Authority and Dr. Deirdre Sadaka-Ramirez are sent back to the Aegean Bronze Age to witness the 1628 B.C. Santorini explosion, the source of Greek mythology. When Jason and Deirdre are unable to return to the 24th century until a predetermined instant, they find that there is more to old legends of gods and heroes than anyone had imagined.
While scientist Victoria Scott is working on her doctoral thesis on an island in the Sea of Norway, she is disquieted by rumours of a murderous hag who sucks out your soul while you sleep. Then a stranger shows up on the island and Victoria learns she is connected by a conflict centuries old.
Includes all the previous TIME PATROL stories - GUARDIANS OF TIME, TIME PATROLMEN, and YEAR OF THE RANSOM - plus a novella STAR OF THE SEA, in which Everard travels to 1st century Northern Europe, where a charismatic young woman is behind the emergence of a warrior cult among the Germanic tribes.
Vampire-werewolf hybrids Riley Jenson and her twin brother Rhoan are employed by an organization created to police the supernatural races. When Rhoan, an assassin, goes missing on a mission, Riley must conquer the lusts that come upon her if she's to find her brother.
Despite the fact that Vicki Cavendish fits the bill for a serial killer who is draining women of blood, women with red hair and green eyes, she can't resist inviting home a beautiful stranger that she meets at the diner. The centuries-old Antonio Battista is also conflicted. On one hand, he has finally found a woman to love, a woman who accepts him for what he is, a woman who wants him as much as he wants her. On the other hand, he's hungry.
An army of soldiers and magicians has poured out of the north on its quest to unite the city-states of isthmus under Felk rule. But with conquest comes rebellion, and there are those who won't be taken easily--by magic or by sword.
The former ruling barons return to power and Kane and his companions are split up and absorbed by warring factions.
The Un-Named one's consort Lilith has released from Hell a monstrous plague of creatures that threatens not only the Guardians but even The Covenant. The only solution that presents itself is to find and behead Lilith.
The first manned mission to Mars has been successful. However, there is a mystery surrounding the "marsmat" - a complex anaerobic life-form inside tunnels below the planet's surface. The search for the answer to life in the universe leads to the dark cold void beyond the planet Pluto.
The half-incubus Sebastian revels in dark delights in a world of shifting lands. And yet the woman he hungers for calls to him in his dreams - even though he could destroy her. And now the Eater of the World has escaped imprisonment, and Sebastian's realm might well be first to fall.
The characters of the mystical Blood realm, Jaenelle and her kindred, return in four brand-new revelatory stories.
Mercy Thompson's life is not exactly normal. Her next door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she's fixing a VW bus for a vampire. But then, Mercy isn't exactly normal herself.
Long ago the old-fathers came to Nanagada thorugh a wormhole in the sky. Now, many generations later, steamships, blimps, and silver cities fill the sky. Although John deBrun has no memory of his past, Nanagada's only hope is to find some of way of recovering that memory. Only he knows the secret of the mythical artifact hidden in the frozen north, even if he can't remember why or how to use it.
An expanded version of A PLANET CALLED TREASON. Lanik Mueller is a rad- a radical regenerative who can regenerate injured flesh and trade body parts to Offworld traders for iron. Iron is the promise of freedom and a means of escape by building a spacecraft.
Sequel to THE LANGUAGE OF STONES. Will sees an unnatural storm raging on the horizon and calls on his mentor Gwydion, once called Merlyn, for advice. Gwydion suspects that Maskull has escaped from imprisonment and works to foment war between King Hal and Duke Richard of Ebor.
A bastion of freedom and justice in a brutal world, Ohndarien is ruled by the Children of the Seasons, four brave men and women tested before the awesome Heartstone and sworn to place the needs of others before their own. When Brophy, the Heir of Autumn, is falsely accused of murder, Ohndarien falls to treachery and deceit. Exiled, but aided by an ambiguous spy and a concubine sorceress, Brophy must survive the deadly gladiatorial game of Nine Squares and discover the great secret hidden in the Vastness if he is to save the kingdom from treachery and destruction.
The first book in the new Foreigner trilogy that tells the epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient race.
Young Jarred has grown up among his mother's peaceful desert people longing to know the history of his father. The journeyman left years earlier, promising to return for his wife and infant son and leaving behind the amulet that Jarred has worn always. Coming to manhood, Jarred leaves to find news of his father and comes to a magic place of immense tracts of waterways and marshes with enough strange customs and superstitions to make his head swirl. Here he meets Lilith, a woman who will haunt his dreams and ultimately steal his heart - who perhaps can provide a key to his heritage.
The maiden Jewel has grown up surrounded by love and peace. When her parents are killed, Jewel and her uncle must flee the only home she has known. Jewel is the last of the line of the sorcerer Janus Jaravhor and King Uabhar will stop at nothing to find to find her.
An anthology of short stories and poems that draw on the great wealth of faery lore, classic faery literature, and old tales. Authors include: Charles de Lint, Tanith Lee, Holly Black, Patricia A. McKillip, Neil Gaiman, Steve Berman, and others.
449 AD: Attila is massing his forces to claim half of a crumbling Roman Empire. Under the guise of diplomacy ambassadors have been sent to Attila's camp, secretly planning to foment unrest and assassination and in their company is Jonas, historian, unsuspecting pawn, and skilled swordsman.
The 1st Marine Interstellar Expeditionary Unit has freed thousands of enslaved humans from the alien yoke. But now an ancient wormhole is threading through the Sirius system. Whatever waits on the other side must be confronted, with stealth, with force, and without fear - be it an ancient enemy or a devastating new threat.
Saglant is opposed by his aunt, Mother Scholastica, who threatens to interdict him and all who follow him unless he puts aside his wife, Liath. King Henry's wife, Adelheid, is determined to regain control of the empire, but has allowed Antonia to proclaim herself Holy Mother. Stronghand, too, is consolidating his gains for his combined Aika/Alban empire. As Liath seeks out forbidden magic, old alliances are breaking and new ones forming.
End of the series. The land is beginning to recover from the cataclysmic return of the spell-cast Aoi. But many new alliances are forming even as Sanglant struggles to legitimize his own leadership. The Aoi are carrying out random attacks - while implicating him as their leader. Stronghand has begun a march of conquest into the heart of Sanglant's realm, Adelheid and Antonia have made an unholy alliance. And Sabella and Duke Conrad are moving to seize Sanglant's crown. Cultures, religions, and races are clashing in what will be the ultimate struggle for control of this strange new world.
In one volume three of Farmer's explorations of erotic contact between human and alien: THE LOVERS, FLESH, and STRANGE RELATIONS.
The Western Hemisphere's two power, the Kingdom of Albany and the Norse Alliance, stand at bay, threatened by the Zhaithan Empire of the Mosul. If four youngsters find each other, and themselves, they can form an entity that can challenge the warrior demons raised by the necromancy of the Zhaithan. But even with the help of the mysterious Yancey Slide, who may not be entirely human, the obstacles they face may well be insurmountable.
David Caine, a compulsive gambler and brilliant mathematician prone to crippling epileptic seizures, is able to calculate the odds of any hand in the blink of an eye. He takes an experimental drug that has unnerving side effects: inexplicable visions of the past, present, and future. Gradually, he discovers the extent of his astonishing new ability - but powerful, shadowy forces know Caine's secret.
The Malwa prepare a fresh attack whose success will leave them rulers of the world - and the monster that guides the Malwa will rule the whole future! Belisarius has arrayed the forces of Mankind against the Malwa evil. On his breast is the jewel sent to his support from a future of hope and freedom, willing to guide him but never to direct his actions.
When Rabbit joined the Royal Army of Iversterre, he was just trying to get off the family farm. Instead, he got mixed up with a magical from the Border, learned he couldn't escape his noble lineage. and developed some surprising talents that he can't always control. But with Iversterre sliding toward the abyss, Rabbit needs to master his powers quickly--before someone else does it for him.
Northwood, Massachusetts. The Victorian mansion in which, 13 years earlier, Eleanor Grimm conjured her wicked schemes, now belongs to Jen and her husband. They're converting the former mortuary into a bed and breakfast and artist colony to create a nurturing environment for the baby they're expecting. But although Eleanor's spirit has been laid to rest, her spirit still lingers and guides the mind of the youngest Nailer sibling, Steve, who is compelled to help her gather victims and perform the rituals that will place her soul into Jennifer's unborn child.
Yielding to his father's wishes, Oliver Bascombe abandoned his dream of being an actor and joined the family law firm. Now he will marry a lovely young woman bearing the Bascombe stamp of approval. But on the eve of his wedding, a blizzard sweeps in-bringing with it an icy legend who calls into question everything Oliver believes about the world and his place in it.... Pursued by a murderous creature who heeds no boundaries, Jack Frost needs Oliver's help to save both himself and his world-an alternate reality slowly being displaced by our own. To help him, Oliver Bascombe, attorney-at-law, will have to become Oliver Bascombe, adventurer, hero-and hunted.
13 brand-new tales explore the future of Earth and humanity a thousand years from now. From the development of a race that will be the next evolutionary step beyond mankind, to civilization's adaptation to a new ice age, to a people who have escaped the constraints of chronological time, these are provocative, inventive glimpses of our world and universe that are only a millennium away.
Cryptozoologist Diana Malone follows rumours of wolves in the Louisiana bayous and finds evidence of a creature even more perilous. She turns to the the last of a mysterious, possibly cursed Cajun family, who is the only person skilled enough to help her.
Jake Kwok is on the verge of a breakthrough on the quantum computer when he disappears from his hotel room. All that's left is a pile of ashes. Neither the US nor its rival China know what happened but both are determined to find out. The chase will lead from the memory palaces of ancient China to the halls of US intelligence, from the brothels of Hong Kong to the virtual realm known as Cybernesia.
H. W. Wells seems a respectable establishment, but the company that employs Paul Carpenter is in fact a deeply sinister organization with a mighty peculiar agenda. Sequel to IN YOUR DREAMS.
Civilization ends with a call on your cell phone. A pulse from a mysterious source transforms all cell phone users into homicidal maniacs. Cyber prank gone haywire? "Normies" who have survived the attack have gathered with the headmaster of Gaiten Academy to see something terrifying and awesome on the moonlit soccer field. The only option is to take them on.
2003 Stoker nominee. Roland, the last gunslinger, is still obsessed with the pursuit of the man who killed his mother and by his need to reach and perhaps save the Dark Tower, which stands at the centre of the universe. His destiny takes him to Calla, a town in the mid-world that lies in the shadow of Thunderclap, where he must face the evil wolves that threaten the town.
Sequel to SHIELD OF THE SKY. The companions must now face the next struggle in their effort to defeat the Stone God and his minions.
George, the Good Knight, arrives to save Princess Andromeda from the dragon, to which she is to be a virgin sacrifice. Unfortunately, he doesn't exactly defeat it. Andromeda is going to have to help him out, a practice which is traditionally frowned upon.
Kosar the thief senses that Rafe Baburn is no ordinary boy. After witnessing a madman plunder Rafe's village and murder his parents, Kosar knows the boy needs his help. And now, for a reason he cannot fathom, others are seeking the boy's destruction. Uncertain where to begin, Kosar turns to A'Meer, an ex-lover and Shantasi warrior whose people, unbeknownst to him, have been chosen to safeguard magic's return. A'Meer knows instantly that it is Rafe who bears this miracle of magic. Now Kosar and a band of unexpected allies embark on a battle to protect one special boy. For dark forces are closing in - including the Mages, who have been plotting their own triumphant return.
In the year 2042, Sierra, a young graduate student in Classics is shown a new dialogue of Socrates in which a time traveler tries to argue that Socrates might escape death by time travel to the future.
Aided by a king's daughter and a circle of allies, a young warrior embarks on a quest against those who destroyed his people, and the tyrant who took the precious Teeth of the Ice Bear. And to do so, he must become his enemy's worst nightmare. He must become a ghost.
After his father's untimely death, 14 year old Wyl Thirsk must lead the Morgravian army and fulfill his destiny and assist the crown prince, Celimus. Celimus is cruel and forces Wyl to watch the torture and execution of an accused witch, Myrren. Myrren bequeaths a strange and unexpected gift to Wyl which gives him the chance to save himself and the honour of his country from the plots of the new sovereign, Celimus.
Sequel to WINTER ROSE. Sylvia Lynn is called home for her grandfather's funeral. Sylvia's grandmother attempts to get Sylvia involved in protecting Lynn Hall from the otherworldly forces that surround it. Sylvia, however, feels the pull of both worlds.
Wayfarer Inspector Danolarian thought the huge oval thing that had fallen from the sky was a dragon's egg. When it opened, he discovered that his world was being invaded by the sorcerers from Lupan. Danolarian, an extraordinary wayfarer, organizes a resistance attack against the invincible magic of the Lupanians.
Horror writer Jack Stone returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral, and all his childhood fears are there waiting for him, including the one figure from his past that Jack fear mosts, dead now for many years.
The Danu are the mystical race that landed on the shores of Eire long ago. They were imbued with power over Nature and over time itself. This is the story of the coming of the Celts and the discovery of these magical mystical folk.
Sequel to GUARDIAN OF HONOR. The Sorcerers of Llandrana attempt to call up a saviour for their threatened world. But instead of a powerful warrior, a grad student by the name of Marian Harasta shows up. She doesn't have a clue why she was chosen, or what her abilities or qualifications might be.
When an engineer is exiled and his wife executed, his anger, grief and sense of injustice make him devote himself to a terrible cause - the complete annihilation of the city that cast him out. But he will not be able to achieve this by himself. Somehow he needs to start a war.
Prince Phoenix has never quite measured up to the expectations of his father King Julian. Sombra, Phoenix's childhood friend, believes in him, but she has her own duties as a student of the College of the Wise. Then Phoenix is abducted in a raid and sold to slavers. Enduring pain and humiliation, Phoenix must find a way to survive, even if that means becoming a danger to the people that he loves. While King Julian searches for his lost son, a growing army of fanatics led by the charismatic Mother Mahalial is conquering land after land, and its final destination is the golden land of Westria. Only Sombra can sense Phoenix's plight - and her attempt to rescue him may decide the fate of the kingdom.
Archaeologist Verity Auger is working on a dig on Earth - which was destroyed in the catastrophe known as the Nanocast. She volunteers for a mission down a wormhole that terminates in what looks like mid-20th century Earth. But is it? And if it isn't, what is it?
SWORD-DANCER and SWORD-SINGER in one volume.
Betrayal and revenge spans three generations of independent spacefarers. After the big government space agencies disappear, individuals must find their own way up, riding lines of electromagnetic force that flower into space from earth like the mighty Yggradisil of Norse myth, taking with them their baggage of enmities and hatreds.
A world where Rome fell to Carthage and then rose again. Now, the Romans' victory is complete, but their legendary untiy - and commander Marcus Scipio's leadership - will be tested...
Showcase of the best in the fantasy genre: all-new stories from Feist, Card, Gaiman, McKiernan, McKillip, Niven, Oates, Turtledove, de Lint, Wolfe and many more.
When rebellion breaks out at the edge of the frontier, Chralie Bass and the rest of the 34th FIST are the only available backup. But what can 1000 Marines hope to accomplish when 30000 groundpounders have already failed?
When vampire hunter Eden Faveau mistakes Laurent, a renegade vampire of Tribe Manticore, for her new partner, he's not about to correct her. He's stolen a laptop full of sensitive files from the Tribe leader, Justinian, and needs help cracking the encryption. Working by night and growing closer every day, Laurent and Eden struggle with the passion that threatens to overwhelm them. But when Justinian captures Eden, and Laurent proves his loyalty to his Tribe in the most shocking of ways, Eden vows to kill Laurent for his deception.
The family of the Royal Cartographer has a unique gift: these artisans not only draw the maps but also explore uncharted territories. Sometimes, simply drawing a new land can be enough to bring it into existence. And when tragedy strikes the family, the tormented dreams of one young woman flow back to the Royal Cartographer himself, sending him slowly mad - and in danger of bringing these nightmares to life.
In which Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and courageous Puritan, pursues knowledge in the company of the greatest minds of Baroque-era Europe -- in a chaotic world where reason wars with the bloody ambitions of the mighty, and where catastrophe, natural or otherwise, can alter the political landscape overnight. The three volumes of the trade edition will become 7 volumes in the paperbacks.
Tatja Grimm grew up among stone age primitives but is exposed to new technology, to reading, and to people who have experienced the wider world. Rising through the ranks of a world publishing magazine staff, she proves to be far more special than anyone could have known.
An omnibus edition of the three Colin MacIntyre novels: MUTINEERS' MOON, THE ARMAGEDDON INHERITANCE, and HEIRS OF EMPIRE. Colin is on a routine flight over the moon when he is grabbed by an AI-controlled starship. He is told that he is now the new captain of the starship. Before he can lead the fight against the galaxy's ancient enemy, however, he must defeat the ship's former crew of immortals, who have been secretly ruling Earth for millenia.
A collection of five erotic vampire stories, featuring three of the most seductive bloodsuckers around.
Concludes the compelling, space-faring adventure begun by GEODESICA: ASCENT. Three unlikely allies begin plotting their revenge against an artificial intelligence behind the destruction of the system of Bedlam--and fight to control the ancient labyrinth of Geodesica.
The new Repairman Jack. Jack travels to Gateways South, a seniors community on the edge of the Everglades, after learning his father is in a coma after a car accident. He meets some strange people and observes some strange events there. He must answer a lot of questions if he is to protect his father.
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. As Tyler and his friends Jason and Diane grow up, a space probe reveals a bizarre truth: The barrier is artificial, generated by huge alien artifacts. Time is passing faster outside the barrier than inside - more than a hundred million years per day on Earth. At this rate, the death throes of the sun are only about forty years in our future. Recommended.
The city-state of Saraykeht dominates the Summer Cities: commerce and trade fill the streets. Any desire can be satisfied and people know that their city is a bastion of progress in a harsh world. The poet-sorcerer Heshai is the heart of the city's influence. The armies of Galt want to conquer Saraykeht by destroying its prosperity.
Felix Gomez went to Iraq a soldier and came back a vampire. Now there is an outbreak of nymphomania at the secret government facility in Rocky Flats and Felix must get to the bottom of it.
The elite agents of BSI, the Bureau of Special Investigations, have the job of solving off-Earth crimes and protect humanity's starside interests. When BSI agents Jamie Mendez and Hannah Wolfson arrive on a planet settled by the enigmatic Pavlat to escort a prisoner back to Earth, they find a world where murder is a time-honored tradition. They must find a way to untangle the web of Pavlavian intrigue obscuring the case and sort out what's really going on. But there's far more than just one man's life at stake-and soon they'll have a fresh murder to solve.
A near-future outbreak of plague threatens a delicate peace negotiation - to say nothing of the entire Western Hemisphere.
Series conclusion. Beset by personal problems, lunar legend Erik Morrison learns that a component of the Ad Astra project has been compromised - possibly by sabotage. But he'll have to get himself together before he can get to the bottom of it.
More than a billion years from now a young woman flees a rigid, timeless Earth in the company of an intelligent beast, wise beyond recognition. She encounters alien agencies that have learned to span parallel universes that lie only a millimeter apart but are invisible to any device known to humanity.
The gigantic colony ship "Goddard" has made orbit around Saturn in the year 2095. Part of Goddard's mission is the study of Saturn's moon, Titan. Ten thousand dissidents and visionaries are seeking a new life possibly on Titan. When the exploration vessel disappears, Eduoard Urbain, the chief science officer is in despair to see his life's work unravel. Manuel Gaeta, a retired astronaut is asked to salvage the lost probe.
Saito Yamagata thinks Mercury's position will make it an ideal orbit point for satellites that could someday create enough power to propel starships into deep space. He hires Dante Alexios to bring his dreams to life. Astrobiologist Victor Molina thinks the water at Mercury's poles may harbor evidence of life, and hopes to achieve fame and glory by proving it. Bishop Elliot Danvers has been sent by the powerful Earth-based "New Morality" to keep close tabs on Molina's endeavors, which threaten to produce results contrary to fundamentalist teachings. Three of these men are blissfully unaware of their shared history and how it ties into one of mankind's greatest tragedies.
The Empress of Hamilay has killed many in her quest to take over the entire known world - and there are those who seek revenge.
Bean was the smallest student at the Battle School but became Ender Wiggins' right hand. Since then he has grown to be a power on Earth, serving the Hegemon as strategist and general in the wars after Ender defeated the aliens. Now he and his wife Petra yearn for a safe place to build a family, but to find security, they must once again follow in Ender's footsteps and leave Earth behind, in the control of the Hegemon, and look to the stars.
Tabini, deposed as ruler of the atevi home world, attempts to retake control by drawing together various allies and allowing himself to serve as a possible assassination target. Meanwhile the human diplomat Bren Cameron continues to attempt to persuade the atevi that other alien races exist - and pose a danger to them.
At the close of a war of anachronism, in which the armies of Genghis Khan fought those of Alexander the Great, a contemporary woman tossed into the middle of these events discovers the portal linking back to the Firstborn - the creators of the black monolith in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.
Alternate history in which Great Britain joins the Confederacy in fighting the Union during the US Civil War.
Beautiful test pilot Charley Pine, now flying space planes to the moon for the French lunar base project, discovers a world-threatening anti-gravity beam. The French kidnap Rip's uncle Egg and force him to fly a saucer hidden in Area 51 to the moon. So Rip and Charley must steal the first saucer out of the National Air and Space Museum to save Uncle Egg and the world. Sure, it all sounds so plausible, but tell me this: would you really be able to get the saucer into the elevator disguised as a nun?
Sequel to THE COMPASS ROSE. Kallista's unique magic power is no longer working properly. Yet she continues her search for the other "Godmarked", hoping to find those who can help her keep the demon invaders from shattering her world.
This year's winners include Lois McMaster Bujold, Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages, and Walter Jon Williams, as well as Grand Master Anne McCaffrey.
Garric or-Reise, the son of an innkeeper on Haft, has sworn to become the true Lord of the Isles. With his four companions, they have undertaken a Royal Progress to renew the bonds of fealty among the Isles. On Sandrakkan, Earl Wilduf is willing to resume his ancestral obligations, and the Countess Balila schemes with the court wizard to destroy Garric in order to make Wilduf new King of the Isles.
Sequel to WHEN GRAVITY FAILS. Marid, now the right-hand man of Algiers boss Friedlander Bey, kills one of the Budayeen's nastier characters and precipitates a crisis.
Canadian author. One last rebel army has been pursued to the ancient city of Y'Ghatan by the the 14th Army, where Adjunct Tavore must seek to outwit Leoman of the Flails, the deadliest foe she has ever faced.
Since the time of pre-history carpetmakers have tied intricate knots to form carpets for the court of the Emperor. These carpets are made from the hair of wives and daughters; they are so detailed and fragile that each carpetmaker finishes only one single carpet in his entire lifetime. But one day the empire of the God Emperor vanishes and strangers begin to arrive from the stars to follow the trace of the hair carpets. What these strangers discover is beyond all belief.
The FOOL'S GOLD trilogy concludes. The three temperamental gods that rule this world are bound under a renegade magician. In their struggle to break free they will change their world, affecting the fate of their peoples.
Paleontologist Dr. Helen Sutter doesn't realize her work on the "funny fossil" a teenager found in the Arizona desert would take her to Mars.
New 1632 stories by various authors.
The CHICKS IN CHAINMAIL series continues with all new adventures of fearless women warriors from such authors as Flint, Turtledove, Nye, Wen Spencer and Friesner herself.
If Kahlan is to survive she must find out why she is such a central figure in the war-torn world swirling around her. Yet she has learned that if she ever were to unlock the truth of her lost identity, then evil itself would finally possess her.
As prophesied, Owen Deathstalker has returned to save the Empire from the mysterious entity known as the Terror - leaving his descendant Lewis with the task of leading an army against the legions of the madman who has usurped the throne.
Private Eye John Taylor is the only thing standing between his not quite human mother and the destruction of the magical realm within London that is known as the Nightside.
Anita flies to St. Louis where she faces the most difficult zombie raising of her life. But it's not the flying that scares Anita - it's her first night alone with Micah.
Sequel to PANDORA'S STAR. The Prime, a predatory alien species unleashed by the Intersolar Commonwealth while it was investigating a disappearing star, is not the only threat to be met. A shadowy cult, the Guardians of Selfhood, has warned that an alien with mind-control abilities impossible to detect or resist - the Starflyer - has secretly infiltrated the Commonwealth.
The definitive anthology of sf stories from the past 100 years. Includes Anderson, Ellison, Gibson, Herbert, Kress, Lewis, Sterling, Wells, Willis, Zelazny and many others.
23 years have passed since Galen Arvad first exposed the deep magic. Now he and his clan suffer an endless war with the dragonkings and a gruesome kingdom of the undead arises in the faery domain. Worse still, in the relam of the reanimated rusting titans a tyrant goblin's lust for conquest goes unchecked. A new generation of heroes is needed.
Colin Hollinghead needs to help his father's widget-making business get back into the black. But turning to J. W. Wells & Co. for supernatural assistance may turn out to have been the wrong strategy.
Empress Ouriana rules by evil sorcery. Her priests have become monsters by magic and bring destruction as they spread darkness to one kingdom after another. But rumours are circulating about a young girl who may be able to end Ouriana's reign. A band of heroes set out to find the hidden girl, racing Ouriana herself.
Druids come from San Bernadino to oppose the Dark Ones in Los Angeles, Crimson City. But their mightiest, their Draige-Uisge, needs the blood - and ecstasy - of the beauty Xiao Fei, the Phoenix Tear, to power his work. And she's not unwilling to be a sort of battery-pack, since her union with Patrick means salvation.
The time of reckoning is at hand, the forces that the shari'a once controlled are being summoned once more, and Brierley finds that the hatred that fueled the Allemani in ages past is still very much alive. Will Brierley have to sacrifice her life (and that of her unborn child) to save an entire world and make things right for her people?
Clinging to an ominous proposal from his young friend Fynch, an increasingly powerful mage, Wyl must walk his most dangerous path yet - straight into the brutal clutches of King Celimus.
In a realm beset by natural disasters, only the bonded pairs - Source and Shield - make the land habitable and keep the citizenry safe. But can Dunleavy Mallorough and Lord Shintaro Karish put aside their differences to defeat something even more unnatural than their reluctant affections for each other.
Johnny Danetello was driving a dying girl through the streets of Brooklyn in his cab and ran down a cop. Every day in prison Johnny knew that Angie Monticelli's family blamed him for her death, and that going home would be suicide. But Johnny has unfinished business with his former friend turned mob boss, Vinny Monticelli. Now Johnny has returned to converse with the doomed and the dead - and wait for Vinny to make his move. Survivors of a long-ago freak accident, the two men share access to alternate realities no one else can know.
After angering every terrorist on Earth and at least five governments, buying a farm in a third world country was looking pretty good to Mike Harmon (of GHOST). Of course, nothing was ever simple. With Chechen terrorists knocking on the door and tenant farmers with a truly Byzantine culture, the question was whether he could drag the keldara into the 21st century before the Chechen put them back in the 6th.
Cally O'Neal (of HELL'S FAIRE), trained interplanetary assassin, tries to recapture her soul. But it isn't easy when her employers think she knows too much to live and the scores of enemies she has made still have her at the top of their hit lists.
SWORD-MAKER and SWORD-BREAKER in a single volume.
Whenever a demon goes rogue, the Devil calls in Dante Valentine to remove the problem.
Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces (CDF). These elite troops are created from the DNA of the dead and turned into perfect soldiers. The turncoat military scientist Charles Boutin has sided with the enemy and it is up to Jared Dirac, the superhuman hybrid created from Boutin's DNA, to provide answers for the betrayal. As Jared hunts for his "Father", he begins to understand the reasons for Boutin's betrayal.
As conflict erupts between the tribes and their brutal invaders, Boudica is forced to make a bold sacrifice. Cloaking her identity, she will travel directly into the stronghold of an enemy who longs for her crucifixion. What happens next-in a brutal drama of betrayal, heroism, and sacrifice-will leave Boudica with no options but one: to raise and arm every warrior, every dreamer, every tribe...and push the invader and its legions back into the sea.
Colchester is burning and London is without hope. Amidst fire and bloody revolution Boudica must do more than lead her army in the greatest rebellion Britain has ever known - she must find healing for herself, for the land, and for Graine, her 8 year old daughter who has taken refuge on the druidic stronghold of Mona.
In the land of Gillengaria, ill-feeling toward magic and those who use it rises to a dangerous level. The king dispatches the Mystic woman Senneth on a journey to assess the situation. Accompanying her are Shapeshifters and Riders, unlikely allies who will enter a land under the sway of a fanatical cult that would purge Gillengaria of all magic users.
Gillengaria's tale, begun in MYSTIC AND RIDER, is continued. The beautiful shapeshifter learns that, in the safest of havens, intrigue and danger can be found.
Mia Snow is part of an elite task force within the New Chicago PD, and every night she stalks and kills otherworldly predators. When virile dark-haired, dark-eyed humans are abducted, she suspects the Arcadians, a powerful race of aliens with extraordinary psychic abilities and a sensitivity to sunlight. The Arcadians, she believes, are pursuing a breeding program so they might better escape detection.
In the small town of Dandridge the buried dead claw their way out of the grave and attack the living, producing more dead, more attacks, fewer living. At the centre is a dark, shadowy figure with a new civic plan for Dandridge, one that doesn't include the living.
Grandson of the Royal Cartographer, Keles Anturasi finds himself trapped in an enemy nation where his skill may well be his death sentence. His brother Jorim is an ocean away, captive in an altered realm in which he's regarded as a god. And their sister Nirati resides in a paradise that exists between life and death with her insane grandfather and an ancient sorcerer bent on the world's destruction. Now they and their companions must struggle to survive in a world where war on earth mirrors war in heaven.
Continues Daniel Waterhouse's quest for knowledge, begun in QUICKSILVER. The paperback series of the BAROQUE CYCLE will be 8 volumes long, instead of the 3 of the hardcover.
Sequel to A COLLEGE OF MAGICS. Samuel Lambert, phenomenal sharpshooter and adventurer, is invited to Glasscastle to participate in the top secret Agincourt project. The only dangers he expects to face are heavy dinners, British snobbery, and tea with the Provost's wife. However, things prove to be much more exciting. Recommended.
Willy Patrick, author of a respected young adult novel, believes she is losing her mind, haunted by her dead daughter. Timothy Underhill, struggling with a new book, is confronted by the ghost of his nine year old sister April and begins receiving emails from dead people he knew in his youth. The two will meet to confront the evils surrounding them.
Ravar, last of Refuge's heretic Shapers, kidnaps the seer Axane, claims the title of Next Messenger, and marches on the holy city with an army of fanatical followers. And the Shaper Gyalo is forced to leave his peaceful life to save Axane and to confront his own destiny.
When Lanara, a young Queenswoman who serves Galha, is sent to the outer reaches of the Queensrealm, neither she nor Galha could foresee the outcome. As Queensrealm faces invasion, the lives of all those Lanara loves are threatened: Nellyn, the Shonyn man who is drawn by love into a world entirely unlike his own; Alea and Aldron, Alilan Tellers who are forced to leave their own people; and Leish and Mallesh, Selkesh brothers drawn across the sea by dreams of conquest.
First of a pair of anthologies that collect stories that serve as genesis for novels and series. The 8 fantasy stories selected include work by Dickson, Charnas, Card, Kurtz, Abbey, Silverberg and Ward.
Most humans are oblivious to the troll under the Brooklyn Bridge, the boggle in Central Park and the beautiful vampire in a penthouse on the Upper East Side. But Cal Leandros is only half-human. He and his half-brother Niko have managed to elude his nightmare of a father for three years, but now he's found them again. Cal soon learns that he is the key to the unleashing of hell on earth.
Interconnected stories set in the phantasmagoric city of Ambergris.
Great songs and ballads of English, Irish, and Scottish traditions re-imagined by Neil Gaiman, Sharyn McCrumb, Charles de Lint, Jane Yolen, Charles Vess, and others.
Rhage is the vampire with the strongest appetite within the brotherhood due to the ferocious curse cast by the Scribe Virgin. When Mary Luce is unwittingly thrown into the vampire world she must rely on Rhage's protection.
Paranormal romance. Sullivan Quinn leaves his native Ireland and his wolf pack for America to warn his Other brethren of a shadowy group willing to use murder and mayhem to bring them down. But he is distracted by Anthropologist Cassidy Poe, a world-renowned authority on social interaction. Working by his side to uncover The Others' enemies poses risks she never expected.
The Wizard Lord keeps all the world in balance. It was his duty to protect the domain from all power-hungry interlopers. It was up to the Chosen to intervene should the Wizard Lord deviate from his duty. The day has come for the Chosen to remove the Wizard Lord.
The Midnighters are unprepared for a new threat that stalks them in daylight. This volume of the mesmerizing trilogy features mysterious alliances and even more chilling creatures from the dark.
In the savage kingdom of the dark elves, life is a constant fight for survival, and no member of this doomed race is more cruel or devious than Malus Darkblade. Possessed by a daemon, Malus is forced to seek a number of magic artefacts or his soul will be forfeit. In this tale, Darkblade must brave a magic labyrinth and defeat its fearsome guardian to recover the Idol of Kolkuth.
The USS Titan encounters a species of interstellar "whalers" who prey upon and exploit a familiar species of sentient spaceborne giants. Appalled but reluctant to rush to judgment, Captain William Riker and his crew investigate, discovering a cosmic spawning ground in a region of active star formation. While attempting to negotiate an end to the victimization of these creatures, Riker's crew inadvertently grants them the means to defeat their hunters' purpose...only to learn that things are not exactly as they seem.
It is the beginning of the German assault of Russia in 1941. The mighty German air and ground forces smashes their way through the crippled Russian infrastructure and are united with axis Romanian soldiers. One such Romanian platoon is led by Constanta and his men. However, one of the German soldiers came to realise that the Romanians were also vampires! When Romania switched sides and joined the allies, the young soldier had the fight of his life trying to survive as Constanta and his vampires tried to protect their dark secret.
Palin and Gerard, of the WAR OF SOULS, are reunited in this new series.
A beautiful young fashion model has her entire world torn apart when she foresees the sinking of a chartered yacht. Although she succeeds in saving herself and several fellow models from the disaster, it is at the cost of her highest prized asset: her physical beauty. Scarred and embittered, she agrees to help the Grim Reaper correct the imbalance in its grand design and win back her looks-by luring her former friends back into Death's clutches. Will her need to reclaim her former beauty prove stronger than her love for her friends? Or is evil-like beauty-more than skin deep?
For more than 600 years, Selene was a Death Dealer, a vampire warrior dedicated to the destruction of her people's savage enemies: the werewolves. But then Michael, an ordinary human, got caught in the middle of the war - and was forever changed when bitten by both a lycan and a vampire. Now their love has made them outcasts and targets and in order to survive, Selene must uncover a terrible secret hidden deep within the shadows of her own forgotten past.
The Chiss-Killik border war is threatening to engulf the entire galaxy and raising the awful specter of Killiks sweeping across space to absorb all living creatures into a single hive mind. The only hope for peace lies with the Jedi - but only if they can both end the bloodshed between two fierce enemies and combat the insidious evil spread by the elusive Dark Nest and its unseen queen.
Dirk 'Dunk' Hoffnung has already tasted the high life as a star Blood Bowl player but now he has to start all over again in the Goblin Leagues!
As the forces of good and evil strive for control, one man seeks only to get his daughter back alive. But to do so, he must walk a perilous path.
When an Imperial officer crash lands in the ork-infested jungles of Armageddon, a crack squad of Black Templars is sent to look for him. However, they stumble onto a Chaos plot, and must deal with corrupt Chaos Space Marines as well as ravening hordes of greenskins.
Ivy League student Bernard Cross finds he can reinvent himself again - now that Oceanic Flight 815 has crashed. But when tragedy strikes he'll have to trust his fellow castaways with the truth.
When one guild ravages the street, Teysa leads another to "cleanse" them. Agrus Kos sees the warring guilds and something clicks - and he knows what he must do.
Shadowrunner Kellan Colt thinks she's ready to strike out on her own when she discovers the location of a secret cache of military weaponry--right in the heart of the supernatural creature-infested Awakened wilderness.
The struggle between the angelic hosts and the demonic hordes has now come to the mortal realm. Driven by nightmares to the ruins of a mysterious tomb, Lord Aldric Jitan hopes to awaken a terrible evil that has slept since the fall of Tristram. Drawn by the growing darkness in the land, the enigmatic Necromancer Zayl stumbles upon Jitan's plot - unaware that one of his own brethren has set the dire events in motion.
Jean Grey awakens in an unfamiliar room. She is weak, disoriented, stripped of her telepathic and telekinetic powers - and trapped in someone else's body. Also prisoner are her teammates Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, and Nightcrawler - their minds held hostage within the bodies of strangers. Who has brought them here, and for what purpose? The answers lead to a terrifying plan that threatens not only the X-Men, but all of mutantkind.
96 page recounting of the legend of the warrior-god Sigmar with drawings and stylish presentation to somewhat offset (if not justify) the price.
The 4 Genevieve novels in one volume.
Essay and photographs celebrating thirty years of events, games, art and personalities.
While on patrol, Buffy sees a werewolf evaporate like a ghost before her eyes; suspicious people in dated clothing and hairstyles who don't appear to be vampires are spotted throughout town; and most disturbing, a sleeping sickness begins to sweep over town, leaving those affected in a near-comatose state.
7 novellas featuring the elves of Faeruln, including stories from Salvatore, Baker, Smedman, Cunningham and Greenwood.
Daine may be dying and the only thing that can save him lies on the dark continent of Xen'drik.
The robotic Cylons are changing, looking and acting human. After they attack the 12 human worlds, only a single ship survives the onslaught, Battlestar Galactica. Led by Commander Adama, President Laura Roslin and pilots like Starbuck and Lee Adama, the refugees fight for the survival of humanity.
More action with the Grey Knights in the second book of this popular ongoing series. When a planet mysteriously reappears, having vanished a hundred years earlier, the Imperial authorities suspect it may have been corrupted by Chaos. A crack team of Grey Knights Space Marines is sent down to investigate, and discover a nightmare world where technology runs riot, and titanic war machines have been possessed by daemons.
Three years after the events of STONE AND ANVIL, Captain Elizabeth has been promoted to admiral and is occupied dealing with her new command aboard a space station, while Soltea has left Starfleet to explore her Romulan heritage. But the stability and safey of the entire sector is about to be endangered by an enemy the galaxy has long forgotten.
The Burning Legion has been defeated, and eastern regions of Kalimdor are now shared by the orcs of Durotar, led by their noble Warchief Thrall, and the humans of Theramore, led by the powerful mage Lady Jaina Proudmoore. But random attacks against Durotar's holdings suggest that the humans have renewed their aggression toward the orcs. Jaina's search to uncover the truth behind the attacks leads her to a shocking revelation.
The mutant vampire Durham Red is horrified to find herself hunted down by her own demonic future self, Brite Red. The only way she can save herself is to get her talons on the terrifying alien artifact known only as Manticore.
A controversial new reality TV show pits convicts against each other in a fight to the death, and Jason has been lured as the show's star attraction. But it all goes horribly wrong. The "Jason Strain," a highly contagious virus that makes its victims invulnerable and immortal, but also fills them with Jason's rage and desire to kill, is unleashed upon the unsuspecting contestants!
Martian Manhunter is in trouble. He'll need Superman's help against the bounty-hunter Lobo. But all three, being sole survivors of the destruction of their home planets, are the targets of an artificial life form.
The final volume in the saga of civil war and chaos in the darkest part of the Forgotten Realms setting. This latest title drives the civil upheaval among one of the most popular races in the Forgotten Realms setting to its epic conclusion.
When Erwin Rohmer is asked to investigate a set of mysterious thefts, little does he realise that he will be plunged into a nightmare world of intrigue. No one will believe his tales of malevolent, walking ratmen. Branded madman and heretic, he is forced to run for his life. His last option is to turn to the dwarfs - but will this proud, taciturn warrior-race agree to help him?
Police pursue the mystery of the beguiling and dangerous revolutionary V as those in power seek to defuse the unrest he has caused. They are unaware of the terrible truth that will answer their questions. It is Evey, however, who, with V as her enigmatic guide, sets out on the most painful path of all: a journey of deception and self-discovery, deconstruction and re-creation, vindication and vengeance.
Rescued from a fouled-up spiritual quest in an Iranian monastery and recruited by an agent for the Hidden World, John Constantine and his extraordinary allies are forcibly dragged into a globe-spanning conspiracy. For a secret cabal has set in motion a horrifying plot to raise the ancient demon god Warlord - and bring about a last great war that will annihilate everything on Earth.
Captain Jonathan Archer and the Enterprise are caught between the Antianna and the Thelasian Trading Confederacy. Archer hopes to prevent war from breaking out - but he needs Ensign Hosi Sato to translate the Antianna language. He figures that if he knows what they're saying, he might be further ahead.
The criminal overlord Efil Drago San has finally been caught, but the Judges have a big problem. His crimes were so abominable, so global, and so high profile that Mega-City One will have to give him something it has never given before: a fair trial!
Former monk Rhys leads a powerful alliance in an attempt to find some way to destroy the Beloved, the fearsome movement of undead caught in the terrifying grip of the Lord of Death.
Before the Clone Wars began, Six Jedi Masters, twelve Jedi Knights and 50,000 crew boarded a starship and left to serch for intelligent life outside the known galaxy. They disappeared without a trace. Now the full story is revealed - and the alien warlord Thrawn is first encountered.
A pirate captain thought long dead returns to claim his ship. Now reformed, and with a letter of marque from his masters, he embarks on his new mission - to hunt down the vile zombie pirates that are plaguing the high seas.
Kimberly Corman and her friends barely avoid dying in a horrific accident. But Death does not consent to be cheated and starts stalking them.
The superheroes known as the Ultimates form a tag team to combat time travellers who arrive from an alternate chaos universe to make some minor adjustments to history. These adjustments, among other things, will eliminate the Ultimates.
Chakotay takes command of the Voyager after Janeway's apparent demise. Meanwhile Q sends Tom and Harry on a journey into the past and the Doctor, trapped in an alien dimension, tries to secure the fate of those he left behind.
Kellan Colt has come far in her magical training, but she still doesn't know the truth about her shadowrun mother or the secrets of the amulet she possessed. Troubled by disturbing dreams, Kellan is drawn into the paranoiac elven homeland of Tir Tairngire. There she must figure out whom in the shadows she can really trust.
The third title in The Minotaur Wars trilogy concludes the tale of the fallout from the end of the War of Souls. Krynn is still rife with conflict and the elven land of Silvanesti is no more, replaced by the minotaur colony of Ambeon. But the rebellion has one last hope.
Yet again, reluctant hero Commissar Cain is catapulted into glory in the fourth story of this tremendously popular series. Escaping from a disastrous space battle, the commissar and his malodorous sidekick Jurgen crash-land behind enemy lines. The only way out is to round up what few troops they can find, and fight their way back to the safety of the Imperial lines. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of barbaric alien orks stand in their way!
FBI Agent Andy Gray finds himself somewhat at a loss after encountering the terrifying creature that had once been his former partner and friend.
A gang of young students headed for France avert death after one of them has a premonition. Death, however, is determined to compensate, and starts going after them one by one.
When the residents of Elm Street stop dreaming, a top psychiatrist is called in to assess the town and discovers something worrying - on the night that the town's dreams stopped, a young woman identified only as DK escaped from a local high-security mental institution. Her case file hints that DK possesses extraordinary telekinetic powers that enable her to control the dreams of others. Oh, and one more thing - her father was Freddy Krueger.
In a bleak, dark future overrun with crime, psychic powers are a dangerous reality. Cassandra Anderson and the members of the PSI Division are all that stand between the civilians an underclass of dangerous psychic criminals. In this, her first case, Anderson investigates a series of horrific murders that are apparently happening from beyond the grave.
Vancouver author. We're taken from the most poisonous corners of Faerun to the madness of a serpent haunted jungle plain.
In the nightmarish future city of Hive Primus, those who want to survive will do so at all costs. When Uriah Storm has the chance to lay his hands on some high-grade bio-implants he doesn't hesitate to venture down to the most dangerous levels of the city to recover them. There's one snag though: the implants' current owners are still very much alive.
Third novelization that ties in to the television show LOST.
On a mission to sabotage a chemical weapon research facility on a Separatist-held planet, four clone troopers operate under the very noses of their enemies. The commandos are outnumbered and outgunned, deep behind enemy lines with no backup-and working with strangers instead of trusted teammates. Matters don't improve when Darman, the squad's demolitions expert, gets separated from the others during planetfall.